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A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.

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• Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Strong
  • Rising
  • Personage

• Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Freaks
  • Galactica

• The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

  

  Baltasar Garzon
  • People
  • Law
  • Politics

• Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Stand
  • Divided

• The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Always
  • Place
  • Class

• The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Tolerance is another word for indifference.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Tolerance
  • Indifference

• I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Business
  • Evening
  • Weekends

• I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Been
  • Photographer
  • Amateur

• I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Worry
  • Fine
  • Aging

• The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Real
  • Evil

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • Society
  • Space

• People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Suffering

• I will:· Give Rajkot a modern scientific institution for measuring and managing earthquakes.· Make Rajkot the hub of tourism development in Saurashtra and Kutch.· Give priority to making Rajkot a centre for excellence in education.· Make Rajkot become the premier city, for not just Saurashtra, but also for Kutch.(Source). (20 February 2002).

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Education
  • City
  • Priority

• Memories so treacherous...

  

  Alan Moore
  • Memories

• I think it sends a bad message when we lose these pre-season games.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Bad
  • Games
  • Message

• I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • Opinion
  • Nurses

• Inter-racial sex is probably some of the best sex on the planet. You know what that is? Because with inter-racial sex there's like this whole added pressure to perform. 'Cause it's kinda like you're not just humping for yourself. You're humping for your race. You got to represent your people.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Sex
  • Race
  • Pressure

• Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • God

• The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Problem
  • Feels
  • Speak

• A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.

  

  Andrew Davies